Fastening for satchels



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G. W. LEGG.

FASTENING FOR SATGHELS, 8 No. 351,183. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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G. W.'LEGG,

FASTENING FOR SATCHELS, &0. No. 351,183. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

GEORGE \VILLIAM LEGG, OF EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF ENGLAND.

FASTENING FOR SATCHELS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,183, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed June 26,1886. Serial No. 206,285.

(No model.) Patented in England March 21,1885, No. 3,646; in Germany August 12, 1885, No. 15,571, and in France April 3. 1886, No. 162,553.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WILLIAM LEGG, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, in the county of \Varwick, England, decorator, have invented Improvements in Fastening or Securing Hand and other Bags, Satchels, Purses, Portinanteaus, and the like, (for which Letters Patent have been granted in Great Britain, numbered 3,646, and dated March 21, 1885; Germany,numbered 15,571,and dated August 12, 1885, and France, demand application 162,553, dated April 3, 1886,) of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to means whereby a bag, satchel, purse, or such like article is prevented from being clandestinel y opened-that is, the bag cannot 'be opened secretly other than with the knowledge of the person carrying itas the means of carrying or supporting the bag constitute a part of the device for securing and fastening it in its closed position.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in front elevation a bagframe provided with improvements made according to my invention, the bag being fastened. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section, partly in elevation, of Fig. 1, and taken on the dotted lines A B, the bag being closed and fastened. Fig. 3 is the same as Fig. 2, but showing the handle inclined or turned down, in order to bring the enlargement on the terminal end of the fastening-arm (below the handle-joint) coincident with the enlargement in the slotted hole made in the bag-framing. Fig. 4 shows the bag or bag-frame open. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 show a modification of the fastening device, in which the fastening-arm is hooked outward, so as to engage with the front of the inside frame,instead of with thetop of the same. Fig. 8 also shows a modification in which the fastening devices are elevated upon the top of the outer frame, the inner frame being provided with brackets having slots into which the ends of the fastening devices can be inserted.

The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the accom panying drawings.

upon the j oint-centers I) If, supported by brackets bicarried by and upon the outer framing, b. The extremities or ends below the jointcenters of the handle a are made into short fastening-arms a,with knobs or enlargements a which engage within bulbousended slotholes 0 made or cut out of the top flange, 0, of the inner frame, 0. The narrowed parts of the said slot-holes c are of about the breadth -of the metal of the arm, while the bulbous enlargements c are of a size suitable for the free passage of-the terminal ends or of the short fastening-arms a. The outer framing, b, is gapped at b on its upper or top side to allow the end of the arm I) to be raised sufficiently high to be out of the way, or to be clear of the. inner frame when the bag is required to be opened.

dis the joint upon which the frames 1) c of the bag turn.

When the handle of the bag is in a raised position, or the bag suspended by the handle, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the bag is fastened,and the greater the weight within the bag the more security is obtained. Thus the fastening of the bag is secured by the enlarged terminal ends a of the arm a coming at the back of or being presented to the narrowed part of the slotholes 0, as best seen in Fig. 2, when the handle a is in a vertical position.

On the handle of the bag being lowered or turned aside into the positions indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, the enlarged ends a of the short arms a by their outward motion upon their joints 1), are made to become coincident and pass through the bulbous or enlarged parts 0 of the slotholes 0 which when raised or removed from the said slot-holes unt'asten the bag, and allow the inner frame, 0,0r the mouth of the bag,to be opened by the turning of the said frames upon the joint-centers b b*.

a is the handle. 11 is the outer frame with a gap, b, through which the arm a of the bandle a passes. b are the joints upon which the handle turns, and c is the front side of the inner framing, c, and within the said front side bulbousended openings 0 c are made, which afford the means by which the two frames of the bag are secured together.

On the handle of the bag being turned aside,

as in Fig. 6, the bulbous-ended portions c of I pieces formed with slots which register when the arms a are removed from the slot-holes c? a" and the frames b o of the bag unfastened.

Having thus described my inventionfl claim 5- as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a bag orsatchel having overlapping framepieces provided with slots which coincide When-the bag. is closed, of a handle pivotally secured upon the IO outside frame-piece, and provided with rigidly-attached ends adapted to project through the coinciding slots in the frame, and thereby lock the bag, substantially as described.

2. In a fastening device for a bag or satchel,

15 the combination of the overlapping framethe bag is closed, the slots in the inner frame having eyes at the end,with a handle pivotally secured to the outside frame and formed with extensions of its ends which project through the said slots, the said extensions having enlargements a a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

Signed this 8th day of April, 1886.

- GEORGE WILLIAM LEGG. [1. s]

WVitnesses:

HENRY SKERRETT, MILEs E. HUGHES.

Both of Birmingham. 

